Working Groups

Agriculture Working Group

Aberra Melesse

Aberra Melesse is a Professor of Animal Breeding and Genetics at Hawassa University. He has a Ph.D. in Animal Breeding ...
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Ajebu Nurfeta

Ajebu Nurfeta is a Professor of Animal Nutrition at College of Agriculture of Hawassa University (HU). He has a PhD in ...
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Ayana Angassa

Ayana Angassa is An Associate Professor of Range Ecology at Hawassa University (HU). He obtained his PhD in Range Ecology from ...
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Brhane Gebrekidan

Brhane Gebrekidan is an independent consultant in agriculture. He has authored several technical papers and book chapters. He developed several new ...
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Chilot Yirga

Chilot Yirga has a Ph.D. in Natural Resource/Environmental Economics from University of Pretoria, South Africa.  He is a Lead Researcher ...
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Dawit Alemu

Dawit Alemu is an Agricultural Economist and is currently serving as Manager of the Bilateral Ethiopia-Netherlands Effort for Food, Income and ...
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Engineering and Technology WG

Wendemagegnehu Tsegaye

Wendemagegnehu Tsegaye has a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana. He is a principal ...
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Health WG

Abebe Bekele

Abebe Bekele is a Professor of Surgery and Dean at University of Global Health Equity in Rwanda. He is a ...
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Kassa Darge

Abebe Bekele is a Professor of Surgery and Dean at University of Global Health Equity in Rwanda. He is a ...
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Miliard Derbew

Miliard Derbew is Professor of Pediatrics Surgery at the College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University. He is member of ...
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Solomon Teferra

Solomon Teferra is an Associate Professor and Coordinator of the PhD Program in Mental Health Epidemiology. He earned his Ph.D ...
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Teshome Gebre Kanno

Teshome Gebre Kanno received his Ph.D. in Health Care Management from Century University, Albuquerque, USA. He worked for UNICEF briefly ...
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Natural Sciences WG

Berhanu Abegaz Gashe

Berhanu Abegaz Gashe received his PhD in Microbiology from Oklahoma State University, USA.  He was Professor of Microbiology while at ...
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Mesfin Tadesse

Mesfin Tadesse received his Ph.D. in Systematic Botany from University of Uppsala, Sweden. He is Curator of vascular plants in ...
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Nils Chr. Stenseth

Nils Chr. Stenseth is Professor and Strategic Advisor at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Oslo. He ...
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Tigistu Haile

Tigistu Haile is Professor of Geophysics at the School of Earth Sciences, College of Natural Sciences of the Addis Ababa ...
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